Late last night -- technically early Easter morning -- I was finishing up a watching a TED video ("Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life" -- an amazing video if you can take the time to watch it all the way to the end when she does an encore...talk about talent -- brought tears to my [...]
I decided to work from Kayser Ridge for a few days this week and on the way out here stopped to see a friend, Siraj (http://blog.siraju.com/) who gifted me with a wonderful book of poems. Siraj encourages readers to share reactions on the blank pages he puts between each page of his book as a way to [...]
From Shannon Parker, retreat organizer: On this retreat we basically got together with other leaders and had great times of refreshing and worship. In our meetings we discussed the basics in discipleship and just being relational with people the same way Christ was with His disciples. We enjoyed lots of laughter and great fellowship over coffee [...]
Every Thanksgiving we say, “this was the best one EVER and we’ll never be able to top it.” Then, we top again... http://www.flickr.com/photos/xperienceit/sets/72157628152955099/show/ It was an incredible Thanksgiving gathering packed with the best of everything that makes this holiday special. Everyone contributed in his or her own way and with dishes and family delicacies all the way [...]
Rebekah Marler describes some of the "IT" she's experienced at Kayser Ridge AND Polarity Thinking at Kayser Ridge. Life is good...Thanks for the beautiful post for Cliff's Notes, Rebekah -- and for who you are. http://www.flickr.com//photos/xperienceit/sets/72157628130455030/show/ In March of 2010 I sat on a comfy red couch that could be considered center stage in Kayser Ridge's [...]
As part of her intensive 2-year Mastery-level certification training in Polarity Thinking, Allison Conte pulled together an amazing collection of people for a retreat/workshop – Applications of Polarity Thinking @ Kayser Ridge. I (Cliff Kayser) Co-facilitated this retreat with Allison, and our design included participants bringing a difficult or thorny issue from an organization system with [...]
I couldn't be there for this one, but Dawn and Linda Noble were there to hold down the Kayser Ridge fort -- in stellar fashion, apparently! See the pics here.
CAIRN ART! Yup, as if there weren't enough Cairns and pictures of Cairns around Kayser Ridge -- we are now fully stocked with Carin lamps and Cairn sculptures, thanks to the talent of Bill and Lori Gregory. Bill and Lori moved to Berkeley Springs from Florida in April of 2011, brining their passion for nature and [...]
It started with Michelle James, generative-emergent-creative-super-maven extraordinaire, who convened/recruited/whatever, six of some of the most generative emergent creative super-people I’ve just about ever met. These amazing specimens of human consciousness had just presented at the Creativity in Business Conference (http://creativity-conference.com/) in Georgetown, and came out for a much deserved chill out @ Kayser Ridge for a [...]